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' Leiters Patent No. 70,331, deze@ october 29,1867,

IMPROVEMENT IN rNEGK-TIES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONERN:

Be it knoivnithot I, FRANKLIN D. FORD, of New Bedford, inthe county of. Bristol, in `the State of Mossa,- chusctts, hzive'invented a. new and improved Device for Seourinfor Neck-Ties, Carriage-Curtains, or any article to which it may be epplicable; and I doihereby declerethatthe following is a. full :ind exact description thereof, reference being ,had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists in a metallic spring, constructed and operntingas herein shown.

Figure l is a. view of the bock side of a neck-tie with my invention attached to it.

Figure 2 is a. vienv of my invention removed from 5g. 1.

Fig. 1. A1 is the neck-tie; B, my invention secured to A1. Fig. 2 is a view of my invention removed from iig. 1. It is formed o' Wire, and so curved and bent :is to form a kind of' buttomhole in thel centre c2.

i l .i Operation and Novelty. y

The Withindevice for securing neck-ties, ete., being constructed of wire, as herein shown, and attached to neck-ties, as represented in iig. l, its operation and novelty may be noted. By pressing together the ends a2 il the ports at b2 are sufficiently separated to allow `the spring to slip ou to the nec-ikl of the button. The pressure being then removed, the parts at b2 spring together :1nd the button is securely clasped in the oye c2.

In this invention I do not confine myself to the form of spring set forth. It muy be mode in any practical form. Neither do I claim any device previously invented or' patented for securing neck-ties; but whatl claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isl i l The 1netallic-spring festeninv, provided with fingers or ends a :md clamping parts c2, as herein set forth and for the purposes specified. D

FRANKLIN D. FORD.

Witnesses:

JNO. DAVIS, TH. E. M. WHITE. 

